karl penhaul, cnn, cairo. >> all right. thank you very much. breaking news here on cnn at the top of the hour. i'm donskoy l lemon in new york. commercial airliner crashed and burned on the runway in san francisco. people are dead. many people are hurt. and here's what we know. at least two people conenvironmeconfirmed dead now at asiana 214 slammed hard into the runway and caught fire. more than 180 others injured. witnesses who saw the crash say, the landing looked normal enough before the plane hit the ground, hit it hard, spun around, slid off the runway, and started to burn. passengers jumped on those inflatable emergency slides. more than 300 people were on board. so, something happened. something very wrong. and right now the crash scene crawling with investigators, picking up the pieces, and looking for clues right now. flight 214 was so close to the runway when something went

horribly wrong. the plane smashed into the ground, spun around, burst into flames. the national transportation safety board has said everything is on the table in terms of the investigation. today, to dan simon, renay marsh is in d.c. new graphics showing debris trail from flight 214. >> we have partially re-created the crash scene based on what we have been able to see in the pictures and video so far. so i want you to follow me from the left side of your screen to the right. we have debris in the water, as you can see there. and a debris trail where the land meets the water. in the same vicinity the wheels of the plane and the tip of the tail. shift your eyes, again slightly to the right, and there you will see what is the vertical stabilizer. i wanted to show you briefly, this part is what is the

stabilizer. this is not the exact plane but gibbs you an idea of the second of. it's the part that goes up and down. to right of that is the horizontal stabilizers, that's this part here that goes from side to side. another part of the plane that they're going to be looking at is the landing gear. you can see that's slightly to the right of the wing piece, the tail pieces that we just showed you. the landing gear. now move your eyes, again, to the far right of your screen. that is where the fuselage ended up. and, don, when these investigators, ntsb investigators, get on the scene, this is what they're going to be looking at. they're looking at how close these parts are in relation to each other, which part came off first, which part came off second, and no detail truly will be too small as they try to piece this altogether. also, they're going to look for the crucial piece of evidence and that is the data as well as voice recording boxes.

those hold some critical information that will need to be analyzed. >> stand by. i want to go to dan now. what are you hearing from investigators? >> reporter: we know that investigators are on their way here to the san francisco international airport. you know, from what we're hearing from passengers, things seem to be perfectly normal as they were approaching the runway. in other words, everything was happening the way it was supposed to. and then for some reason, the tail seemed to hit the ground first, and then broke into pieces and then the plane started tumbling down the runway or bouncing down the runway. obviously, witnesses or survivors really had no time to get out of the plane before that fuselage started burning. you look at that wreckage and obviously you know it's unbelievable that at this point you only have two people confirmed dead. as i said, investigators are on their way to the scene. we are told the fbi has secured

that scene. they're in charge of things right now until the ntsb arrives and they start piecing the area together for clues. >> a question, dan. i'm not sure if you're able to answer it. people on social media are asking the same thing. coast guard confirmed they transported one person to the hospital earlier. do they know where they found that person? if they were in the water, near the water? do we know what happened with them? >> reporter: excellent question. i don't know the answer to that question. i do know, i have the same information that you have, and that is that the coast guard was able to pick up a victim from the flight. we don't know if that person was found in the wreckage or found in the water. obviously that would be a good detail to know, don. but just to reiterate in terms of numbers, 123 people were brought here to the terminal or apparently may still even be here at the airport talking to

investigators, meeting up with friends and family. we don't know the status of those people, if they've been allowed to leave. and then 181 people transported or treated at various local hospitals. >> and, dan, you're there in san francisco. apparently san francisco general's the only level i trauma center in the area. equipped very well to deal with this but a number of hospitals in the area as well that some of the people were taken to. >> reporter: yeah. lots of different hospitals in the bay area. some were taken to stanford, for example, basically everybody is on call, if you will accepting passengers. but the most immediate hospital at least closest to the airport that is a level i trauma center is san francisco general. that's where the most critically injured patients are at this hour. >> great reporting, dan. thank you for answering that question. we don't know the answer to it. it's a very important question, what happened to the person the

coast guard transported and where did the coast guard find that person? i'm sure we'll get the information in coming hours. right now, 34 patients are being treated asan francisco's only level i trauma center, san francisco general hospital. >> of those patients, 11 are children and 23 are adults. we have five in critical condition from the original ten. you may recall that at the 2:00 update we had ten critically injured patients, five remain critically injured, five -- the other five have been upgraded to serious. for the rest of the group getting up to a grand total of 34, we do not have condition breakdowns yet. >> the trauma center has set up tents outside the emergency room to help deal with the sudden influx. the hospital spokeswoman says

spontaneous wave of off-duty staffs are showed up to help, doctors, nurses, social workers. kyung lah outside san francisco general for us right now. we're waiting a news conference to happen at any mom. they've been updating us periodically, updating viewers and the general public. how are patients holding up mentally after such a traumatic experience? >> reporter: well, the hospital says there is a lot of work to be done. that's why they're trying to take care of the patients' physical wounds but emotional wounds and logistical issues they face because many are not u.s. nationals. they are from other countries and they're going to need counselor help and figuring out what to do trying to replace passports, something that's sirn but more difficult when you've been in a plane crash. what the hospital says they're dealing with, you've heard the numbers. also dealing with 11 children. the oldest patient here is 7,

some don't have family members here. so there's a lot of work to be done here. the head of e.r. said as far as physical woundsing butchmps and bruises, fractures, what concerns them are spinal injurys. these injuries, it's consistent with a hard landing, dropping at a high rate of speed and crashing and that's something they're worried. also worried how they're doi emotionally. here's what the e.r. doc told us. >> some of them are in shock. some are very tearful. some look stunned. overall, i think it's amazing how well most of the patients are coping. so we're trying to do the best we can with social services and support for all of the patients. >> reporter: and they're also helping them try to figure out

how to get in touch with their embassy, get the passports, figure out what to do with their luggage as well as doing simple things with helping them with their shoes. some patients arrived without shoes on their feet because of the confusion and the force of the crash. and as you were mentioning, they are getting ready to do a news conference in just a short period of time. you see that the public information officer for the hospital gathering in front of microphones. the reason why they're doing all of these updates every hour is because the patient numbers are changing quickly. they were at one point expecting another busload of patients. they're not expecting them to be seriously injured, but another busload of patients who needed to be looked at. we're hoping to learn more information and get back to you with that. >> stand by. we'll listen in. >> okay. everyone ready? okay. rachel kagan, san francisco general hospital center. it's 7:00 saturday, evening

update. currently our grand total number of patients from this asiana airlines accident is 52. when we last spoke it was at 34. since that time 18 additional patients have come. this last wave or most recent wave of patients has been in much better shape than the previous three waves. most of them can walk in on their own. they can talk. they're conscious. they were all brought in by ambulances in groups of three or five. but they are here being assessed and converted, it's our pediatric urgent care center converted to day to manage the large volume of patients. i don't know the breakdown at this time of men and women or ages or conditions. they're all being assessed now. but i do know they're in generally better health than any of the previous patients from earlier today. so just to recap the day, we now

have 52 patients total. the very first group, the first wave, were ten critically injured patients who came at about 12:30 this afternoon. of -- they were all in critical condition when they arrived and now five are critical and five are upgraded to serious. since that time, we have had additional waves. we had a wave of 17. we had a wave of seven. we have a wave of 18. roughly speaking, they have been in declining degrees of acuity, right? most injured came first. the second two batches, there's been a lot of variation. i don't have any other listed as critical but some are still being worked up, asseassessed, having x-rays, having various tests. so we don't have the full breakdown of whether people are critical, serious, fair, or

good. but it's safe to say there will be people in each of the categories. hopefully, probably not so many critical. this last group, 18 people, is the healthiest yet again i don't have conditions for them at this time. so that's the recap of the day. i may have more information about the male/female breakdown, age ranges in an hour. hide be happy to do a final update at 8:00 if folks will be here for that. i don't believe we're expecting any more patients. >> do you know where the patients were prior to the wave was waiting prior to coming here? >> i don't know that. i believe -- collect with ems and the airport -- in the field the triaging, you know for most urgent to least. so there may have been a group of patients that could wait several hours while other patients were being transported. i would imagine they were being kard for in the field to some degree by paramedics but i don't

know specifically. >> is the idea bringing them in waves, is that due to ambulance capacity or -- >> it's not our call. we were ready all day. the first group was the most critical. and then since then it's been declining. >> are you indicating the bumming of the -- bulk of the patients here. >> that's a good question. can try to find it out. >> the children? >> one remains critical and one is upgraded to serious of the first ten, two are children, one is still critical. >> do you know how many are children? >> 11 children. of the 18 -- >> some are children, some are adults. i'm trying to add these grand totals together but i don't have all of the information at once. we definitely have a mix of children and adults, a mix of patients who will be not ever admitted to the hospital, they'll be assessed now, treated, discharged.

that will certainly happen. and then there will be patients admitted, some will be in fair condition, some will be in serious condition, and some will be in critical condition. >> talk about the injuries, kind of things you've seen. >> starting with the most acutely ill, most critical, some had burns, fractures. they had -- excuse me -- internal injuries, internal bleeding. dr. barton elaborated some fractures were long bone fractures, meaning legs or arms. also head injuries. which could be some of the internal injury, could be head injury, could be bleeding. we also saw spinal injuries. and other bone injuries, constitutions, bruises, cuts and bumps, that sort of thing. my understanding is this very last group that came in, probably had more of the bumps and bruises and cuts and maybe

not so much of the internal injuries and fractures, just based on the fact they were able to walk in and being seen in urgent care setting. i don't want to give out my speculation of their conditions until we have that information and that we don't have that information yet. >> tell us about why the triage tents have been taking down. >> there's no more need. everyone's inside. >> [ inaudible ] >> all patients have social workers as part of the care team. those who need psychiatric or counseling, that would be the social worker would match them. so that's how that would normally work. >> that's not typical for everybody that comes here. that's a case of a mass -- >> no, for any trauma patient, social workers are part of the team. for us first ten were all trauma, absolutely. some portion of the next 17 were trauma. last 18 are not trauma. >> what are the worst of the

injuries? >> i don't know. >> of the ten critical, severity? >> i don't, no. >> [ inaudible ] >> i know five are critical but many have not been assessed. we haven't determined that nor every single one portfolio five of the original ten who were critical remain critical. >> how many have been moved? >> i don't know that. i can't speculate. >> 52 is how many you've got. >> some have been released already of the 52. 52 is the grand total since it started today until now. >> [ inaudible ] >> social workers are part of the care team for every one of the patients. they identify that folks need counsel organize psychiatric care, mental health, staff are connected with that patient. >> do you have an estimate of

how many extra staff you have coming? >> i don't know that. >> okay. all right. that is rachel kagan from san francisco general hospital giving the update there again saying, throughout the day, this is the total number of patients, 52 that arrived at her hospital. some released, she's not sure how many. there were a wave of ten people that came in first. those are the people who were injured most here. and they were brought in. ten of them. all were in critical condition. and now five are in critical condition. the other five have been upgraded. a second wave, she said, of 17 people earlier and another wave of seven and now since her last news briefing, there have been more. 18 people, a wave of 18 people, making it a total of 52 people taken to the hospital. let's go back to kyung lah standing by near her. she did talk about the injuries, most prevalent of them were burns, fractures, internal

injuries as well. >> reporter: certainly. those are the concerns that the doctors here are very concerned about because there are the most concerning. they have to deal with the internal injuries. the doctor did talk about that, the blunt force trauma. these are things that are going to take time before they get a handle on these types of injuries according to the e.r. doctor we heard from. if there's any good news in what the hospital pio was saying here this last wave of patients is the healthiest group, that's arrived out of all patients that have been arriving here throughout the day. things have calmed down considerably outside the hospital. when we pulled up there were blue tents outside. they were running through a similar protocol that the hospitals that surrounded the boston marathon were going through. that's the type of trauma that were expecting, experiencing, certainly not at that level but that's what doctors were prepared for. one of the things that i found quite interesting is that, during that news conference,

they did say they no longer need translators because there was an outpouring from the community, don. a lot of people here chipping in just to try to help these patients. >> that is good to hear. one last note, they're not expecting any more patient but was we know in the situation it's fluid, anything can happen. so kyung lah standing by for us at the hospital. we'll hear from an eyewitness when we come back. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] some things are designed to draw crowds. ♪ ♪ others are designed to leave them behind. ♪ the all-new 2014 lexus is.

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wrong. something terrible as ever. it's difficult. you know, instincts take over, you really doesn't know what's really going on. >> was it loud? was it -- >> yeah, moment it tested the runway it was pretty loud. >> seeing a passenger on the plane when it crashed. other eyewitnesses who weren't on the plane but very close and saw it happen. anthony was in a nearby hoept when he saw fly 214 approach the runway. he heard a loud pop and a fireball exploded. tony joins me now by telephone. so, tell me what was the first clue that something was wrong, tony? >> hi, how are you? really, i didn't think there was anything wrong up until i just -- the only thing i could notice initially the airplane was coming down, had a little bit of a higher pitch or flare-up as it was coming in but

it looked like it was definitely going to touch on down on the runway sooner then most other airplanes i had been seeing at sfo. apparently when it did come down, it landed, i could not see exactly where on the runway it landed from vipictures i'm seei it hit look like a rock bed prior to the runway. when it was coming down it looked like it was going to touch down. all wheels were down in there. at the time that the airplane touched down the nose wheel and the nose were still flared up. it was up about three degrees. and when it came -- when it came down, you just -- what looked to be -- i was waiting for a small puff of smoke from the wheels that typically touch down. i did not see smoke, i saw a lot of billowing of big white smoke

prior to a small fireball that kind of evolved from the bottom of the aircraft. that fireball was very quick and almost a flash fire. i didn't see any more fire but what i did see after that was the airplane apparently starting to somewhat slide down the runway with the nose still in an up position but then it began to what appeared, in my terms anyway, do a cart wheel, is that the plane actually picked up its tail came up into the air, the note is oriented down towards the ground, and it was not all the way -- not all the way down, and then i could see the tail was in the air, i could see that the tail completely came off. i apologize, i'm still disorder yenned here. i'm in a restaurant and people keep coming in here.

but anyway i apologize for that. it was, you know, the tail was somewhat intact but the tail literally flew off at the very top of the spin and really almost flew off like it was slung shotted. whatever was left of the tail, anyway. and it was kind of slingshoted off. the plane came down to rest. after the initial shock of your brain interpreting what happened, i was kind of waiting for the explosion which i was hoping would never come, and thank goodness it didn't. but you know, it was kind of the next thing. and then after that we first thing that comes to your mind is you yell oh my god a plane crashed in which my wife came running into the room and looked and just began to cry. we said we got to call 911. we dialed 911. 911 services in san francisco

didn't seem to know that there was any kind of crash or anything. so i must have been one of the first caller because they were trying to or yient where's this crash, what are you talking. once it was established there were other calls starting to come in regarding a crash, they knew it what was going on and began to dispatch equipment. there was no equipment on site for at least a couple of minutes at the crash site, once everything settled down in the very moments after the crash. so once the equipment started to arrive they started to foam down the airplane. i did not see any other emergency vehicles on the runway or tarmac for at least 10 to maybe 15 minutes while the airplane was being foamed down. there was a 747 taxiing on the tarmac as the crash happened.

getting ready i suppose to get clearance for lineup and take-off. so that 747 did not take-off but it was a witness to everything else that happened as well. >> tony, we spoke to some of the folks on that airplane and they said that they had been out there for hours and were very close to the debris and saw this crash happen. tony castorani, thank you. you stay safe. out in the evening in the restaurant and make sure you stay safe. appreciate you joining us on cnn. as we said, lots of people recounting what what they saw, eyewitnesses, people on board the plane as well. we'll hear more after this. the boys used double miles from their capital one venture card

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let me update you on the airline crash that happened today at lunchtime on the west coast. it was flight that began in seoul, south korea, on asiana airlines. landing in san francisco, something went wrong. the boeing 777 barely made the runway. tail snapped off, the landing gear broke away, the plane caught fire, wit for than 300 people on board. two of the people are dead. we don't know if they were passengers or crew. 181 others are in san francisco hospitals, at least five are in critical condition. emergency crews were on the scene instantly. putting out the fire and rushing the injured to get medical help. the plane's wreckage is now swarming, wreckage is swarming with accident investigators. want to bring in jim tillman, pilot flown commercial airlines

for 30-plus years and can give us a perspective of the man in control when the situation suddenly turns to chaos. take us into the cockpit when a pilot knows in his gut he's got a serious problem. does training quick in, survival instinct, what happened here? >> all of the above. training will be the thing that's primary. that's going to govern what you physically do. and your idea about survival -- i don't know how much of that you really consider. consideration is, let me get control of this aircraft because i know how to fly it and i'll make sure this works out right. that's the mind-set that you have generally. >> again, we don't want to be too speculative about this. but everyone says it look like the landing came in short, right, that's not the cause of the crash, but from all accounts that's what it appears like here. again, we're not sure. so what is happening when you -- what might cause a plane to come

in short for a landing? >> for whatever reason, he did not have the -- the pilot did not have enough power available to correct the descend that brought an end to contact with the ground before he wanted to be there. now, i have been thinking about this throughout the past few hours and there are a number of other considerations that may or may not have been made really clear. one of them has to do with fact that at least on one other occasion with the 777, in london, they were on approach to land, they ended up landing short also. it's my understanding that it was all because of a fuel situation, for one reason or another, the throttles were moving and the engines were not increasing in their thrust, therefore, they landed short of the runway and short of the power they needed to continue to fly to a safe landing. mechanical things can be present

in these airplanes that will make it impossible for the crew to do the things that they know how to do. we're going to learn a lot over the next few hours and days, as though boxes are examined. >> so there's a certain check list i'm sure that you go through for these emergency situations. but can any amount of training prepare a pilot for every emergency, jim? >> yes. as a matter of fact, your training does come in to being not from the point of view of the exact situation, that you train for an airplane that's coming in short of the landing. but your training includes all kinds of understanding from how the airplane functions and how it reacts and everything else, do play a role in how you handle what you're doing. i mean, i don't know that's for a fact. there's no way to know this but i get a feeling that no matter what happened as that airplane made contact with the ground,

something was going on to keep those wings level and to make that effort that it did come through in the cockpit just successful enough to keep the airplane belly down, that made a big difference in the survivability of the situation. you ended up with the aircraft almost as it if it was on its landing gear that twisted around and ended up where it was, and people were able to exit the airplane through the emergency exit doors. >> jim tilmon, appreciate you joining us all evening, all day long. you've been giving us great information. appreciate your expertise, okay? remember the gentleman who tweeted ow the picture saying, we just crash landed? the tail of the plane has flown off, broken off, and we're leaving the plane? our lori sigel has been in contact with him. we'll hear from lori, hear what he had to say to her.

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we've been monitoring the situations on patients in hospitals there in san francisco. a news conference happening right now. stanford hospital, if we can listen. this is dr. david spain, 45 patients they treated, 15 admitted. let's listen.

>> again, i can't get into specifics about individual patient but was we have had seen a number of serious injuries, internal bleed, numerous fractures, several spine fractures as well. >> any children? >> again, can't get into age and specifics. >> any minors, though? >> can get into specifics. >> i was told there were patients that were airlifted here, that is correct? >> i believe a few patients came by coast guard helicopter. >> describe how the injuries occurred in the crashes? >> dr. david spain at stanford hospital, 45 patients brought in, 15, 16, i didn't hear clearly what he said had been -- will stay at the hospital overnight and 45 again, 45 treated there. what we do know, two people dead, the rest taken to different hospitals around the san francisco area, san francisco general hospital,

st. francis memorial hospital, stanford as well. that's where we got our latest briefing from. we'll update you. we're monitoring that news conference for you. some of the most remarkable images of the crash from social media. a photograph posted to twitter posted by dade, shows passengers walking off the plane, some toting bags as smoke rises from the other side. i crash landed at sfo, tail ripped off. most everyone seems fine. i'm okay. surreal. i bet it was surreal. lori sigel joins me now. new video that david shot, right? >> sure. you know, look, unbelievable picture. one of those pictures that comes out and this is the first thing we're looking at hearing about this. we have video, he actually shot this right as he was evacuating the flight moments after the crash. i want to play it for you right here, don. >> we just crash landed on my flight from seoul to sfo. the plane hit the runway really

hard on the landing. we skidded to the side. i thought we were going to flip over. everyone seems to be okay. i don't have shoes on. i hit my hea pretty hard, i think i'm okay. as much as i fly, i don't think about this stuff happening. everyone seems to be okay but shaken up. wow! >> you can hear how shaken up he is in the video, as you can imagine. you can see people evacuating the plane. and it just the moments after, you can hear it in his voice. he's barefoot. compelling stuff. >> it is compelling. he said what everyone's thinking, you fly all time and you never think about this happening. and he also talked about his injuries as well. also it's interesting, so much of this in this age of social media, when he tweeted that photograph out, he got lots of people tweeting him back on twitter and that can be

disconcerting if you're not used to that attention. >> i should say, he's a tech executive, he's tech savvy, works at samsung, travels quite a bit. he calls himself a pensive optimist and tweeting and posting on path, a private social network. he's been updating folks all along. he said fire and rescue people all over the place, evacuating injured. haven't felt this way since 9/11, trying to help people stay calm, deep breaths. he's been a citizen journalist through all of this and imagine, he's definitely getting inundated on twitter because of tweets and what he's posting, so compelling. >> speaking to people who know him. how is he doing now? >> he's in the tech community. folks are saying we're so happy you're all right, you're doing fine. sounds like he's a little bit shaken up, as anybody would be. and it's the kind of thing where you're kind of wrapping your head around it. i think he posted saying the

adrenaline rush is subsiding, trying to process all of this. that's the case for all of these folks. >> yeah. i mentioned in the initial shock of all of this, most people i find remain calm and then all of a sudden you say, my gosh, look what happened to me, look what i went through, look what i survived, and then it hits you. >> yeah. >> we're glad he's okay. thank you. laurie, appreciate your reporting. with tums freshers. concentrated relief that goes to work in seconds and freshens breath. tums freshers. ♪ tum...tum...tum...tum... tums! ♪ fast heartburn relief and minty fresh breath. [ slap! ] [ male announcer ] your favorite foods fighting you? fight back fast with tums. calcium-rich tums starts working so fast you'll forget you had heartburn. ♪ tum tum tum tum tums

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san francisco international airport where they're holding a news briefing. >> 11 other of different ethnicities accounts for 291 passengers. i also want to acknowledge the tremendous city response given not just by the first responders, in addition to their effort, there were korean and chinese interpreters that were dispatched from the city and from various volunteer groups in the community to come to the airport and make sure translation was provided. our department of public health sent grief counselors in to assist with all of the different families and friends that were here. we had paramedics that rode with the injured passengers as they went on buses to the hospitals through all over the bay area and of course as i said earlier, there are over nine bay area hospitals that attended to

injured victims. united airlines, which is asiana's star lines partner, also dispatched their own employees to assist in all of the hospitals. and family and friend reunification continued to take place at international terminal in the red carpet club. this evening, we are awaiting about midnight to 1:00 arrival of the chair of the national transportation safety board who will begin conducting their formal investigation and site has been secured. we've all been here, the fire chief, the police chief, john martin, the airport director, my staff, and even the coroner for santa maria te'o county, all here for all of the hours and will continue to be here to make sure everything continues to be in order. with that said i want to reiterate that having visited the site with staff and police

and fire department, it is incredible that we have, and very lucky that we have so many survivors. but there are still many critically injured. and our prayers and our thoughts continue to go out for them. with that, i'd like to have mr. yagle from the airport provide you with more details. >> we're actually going to have chief hazewhite speak for a moment. >> good afternoon. joanne hayeswhite. since our last address like mayor lee said we're happy to inform that the 60-plus that i talked about is being unaccounted for all now accounted for. having been on scene for a number of hours, just after the crash, i can tell you i am very deeply gratified with the incredible display of teamwork exhibited not just by the police and fire departments but our brothers and sisters that work at san mateo county that stepped

up to assist us. both a fire emergency and medical emergency. very difficult scene at first, well coordinated with men and women of multiple departments. working hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder with the people at the airport, our mayor who has been on scene, not only emergency operations center but at the accident scene. having surveyed that area i would agree with him. we're lucky there has not been a greater loss of life. and my hat is off to the men and women that literally assisted people off the plane, went into the cabin of the plane to do what they could and that is to protect lives. it was, like i said, incredible display of teamwork. our hearts go out to those impacted by today's emergency and accident and tragic loss. when i talked about those that were unaccounted for i wanted to be clear that we -- our job is to move people off the airfield and into a safe zone and we moved them into the airport.

so when we were counting our numbers, there were two basically delivery points, points of entry at the airport. those were after the press conference when we compared all of our numbers with the different people at those sites, we were then able to account for everyone. we had 182 people transported to area hospitals, both in san francisco county and san mateo ocounty. it a team effort. men and women that work diligently at our hospitals providing the care and support for those that are injured, we thank member. we also had 123 i believe are still either here at the airport or processed and are out. those are people not injured, were passengers and not injured. two of course two fatalities and that accounts for 307 people. once again, thank you for your attention, your patience. these scenes are always fluid. but with the great work under mayor lee's leadership, we're

happy to report there want a greater loss of life. nevertheless, our hearts go out to those suffered losses today. thank you. >> okay. you're listening to the press conference happening at san francisco international airport. the very latest numbers, according to the fire department spokesperson there, 182 people transported to hospitals in and around san francisco. 123 still in the airport or have been processed and are either out of the airport and of course two fatalities, two fatalities. again the latest coming from san francisco international airport. still lots more to go. lots more to tell you about coming out of san francisco and beyond in seoul, south korea, as well where this flight originated. how'd you d9 out of 10.iz today? 9 out of ten? that's great. ♪

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the crash of the boeing 777, at san francisco international airport, suddenly put the tower in crisis mode. its first job, to get emergency crews headed to the crash site and reassure the pilot. here'some some of the tower trc refer to as 241 heavy. >> 241 heavy san francisco,. >> 214 heavy. emergency vehicles responding.

>> john, 214 heavy, san francisco tower. >> john, 214 heavy, emergency vehicles responding. enon their way. >> and they were on their way to this. pictures taken by a passenger who rushed off the plane after it crashed. camera catches a frightening scene but the tower trank control somewhere pilot seem focus, almost matter of fact, both know help is on the way. >> 214 heavy. emergency vehicles are responding. >> 214. >> emergency. >> okay. >> the crash shut down san francisco international airport for a while before two runways were finally reopened. and that brings us the investigation itself. ntsb has a reputation for being pains takingly thorough. my next guest can talk about what inspectors are looking for and knows all about the plane. joining me now, a former boeing

aviation engineer. where will they focus first? >> they'll focus on both the history of the aircraft, the history of the crew that flew the aircraft as well as recent maintenance to see if there's anything out of the ordinary that would stand out, make it obvious why the aircraft didn't land normally. >> i would imagine when the investigators are going through, they're looking at news footage as well, probably looking at us trying to figure it out, before they get there. so, what do you think -- when you see the tail was ripped off, what conclusion might you draw from early evidence? >> the early evidence, early decision that would make from that is that the tail struck the ground fairly heavily because you had the horizontal stabilizers and the vertical fin separating from the aircraft. in fact you had major structural failure right after the plane struck the ground. >> the go team gets there and the first thing they do is approach that plane.

>> they're going to approach the plane. approach preferably the surviving crew members, i believe all of the crew members did survive. >> yeah. >> and witness statements from passengers as well as social media videos and photos that we've seen from passengers. >> they are -- i mean, they have to have spoken to the pilots already, right? to the crew members? >> pretty standard procedure. again, each airline has a different procedure when it comes to what happens to their pilots after an accident, whether they allow their own investigators to speak with them first, whether allow the fbi or ntsb. that remains to be scene, who spoke with them first, and why. >> how long are we looking at here? >> several months. typically about a year. if it's a complex accident, one where the reasons for that aren't obvious it could be two or more years before a decision is made as to what was the probable cause or causes. >> all right. thank you, todd curtis. dr. todd curtis, and the name of your website? >> airsafe.com. >> appreciate you here on cnn

and the help you've given us. you'll be here later speaking with john king. it's interesting, earlier we heard 60 people might be unaccounted for. now we're hearing from the mayor in the press conference all 307 people have been accounted for, and of course two deaths. that's it for me, john king is going to pick up coverage here in washington. >> thank you. i'm john king in washington. top of the hour now. 8:00 p.m. in san francisco. welcome to our viewers in the was around the world. let's update you on breaking news right now. as don noted two people confirmed dead after asiana flight 214 boeing 777 crash landed on the runway at san francisco international airport. you see the dramatic pictures there. that's what's left the huge plane. the tail ripped off. witnesses say the plane was landing then the back of the plane hit the ground, at the very edge of the runway. then the plane spun around. throwing aircraft parts and debris across the tarmac. >> it